Baltimore photographer John Dean captures the sculpture-like qualities of medical equipment and materials, roughly a century old, from the Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives. Made possible by generous funding from J. Mario Molina, a trustee of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the photographs feature a green glass medical flask with a spout and inner cavity, a study of wildflowers native to the United States, a skull of a desert rat, a stainless steel needle holder for suturing, diagnostic eyeglasses with rotating lenses, a surgical trocar and cannula, and a lateral surgical retractor.
Visit the archives online at medicalarchives.jhmi.edu.
Image caption: A surgical trocar and cannula
Image credit: John Dean
Image caption: A skull of a desert rat
Image credit: John Dean
Image caption: A stainless steel needle holder for suturing
Image credit: John Dean
Image caption: Lateral surgical retractors
Image credit: John Dean
Image caption: A study of wildflowers native to the United States
Image credit: John Dean
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